Posted by David Kopel: Taxation without Representation: The Policy of the DC Government: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_05_20-2007_05_26.shtml#1179938434
This afternoon the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is [1]holding a hearing on granting the District of Columbia voting rights in the U.S. House of Representatives; the hearing will be webcast. As usual, D.C.'s campaign is using the slogan "Ending Taxation without Representation." As Paul Blackman and I detailed in a [2]2003 article in National Review Online, "taxation without representation" is in fact a cherished objective of the extremely incompetent D.C. government, as the D.C. government seeks to impose a commuter tax on residents of Maryland and Virginia, and engages in various other schemes to take money from people who cannot vote in D.C. References 1. http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=2789 2. http://davekopel.com/NRO/2003/Getting-the-Tea-Ready.htm _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
